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The risk of dying between the age of 1 to 5 is 75 percent higher for girls in India: UN report
Monday, February 6th, 2012

India is the most dangerous place in the world to be a baby girl, reads a recent article in the Times of India. Newly released data shows that an Indian girl child aged 1-5 years is 75% more likely to die than an Indian boy, making this the worst gender differential in child mortality for any country in the world. The new United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs data for 150 countries over 40 years shows that India and China are the only two countries in the world where female infant mortality is higher than male infant mortality in the 2000s. Read full report “Sex Differentials in Child Mortality”.